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UC Recognizes Entrepreneurs

Published June 2003

UC recognized the winners of two, newly established
faculty entrepreneurial awards during the 5th Annual Entrepreneurship
Recognition Banquet on Friday, May 16 in the Kingsgate Marriott
Conference Center. In addition to the two new awards, George Rieveschl,
PhD, vice president and professor emeritus of UC, best known for
inventing the antihistamine commonly known as Benadryl, was presented
with the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award for Entrepreneurship.

The two new awards, Established Entrepreneur Award and
Emerging Entrepreneur Award, were created for exceptional faculty
achievement in promoting and maximizing the commercial potential and
human benefits of university intellectual property and/or research.
Both awards were open to faculty in all UC colleges.

UC recognized the winners of two, newly established
faculty entrepreneurial awards during the 5th Annual Entrepreneurship
Recognition Banquet on Friday, May 16 in the Kingsgate Marriott
Conference Center. In addition to the two new awards, George Rieveschl,
PhD, vice president and professor emeritus of UC, best known for
inventing the antihistamine commonly known as Benadryl, was presented
with the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award for Entrepreneurship.

The two new awards, Established Entrepreneur Award and
Emerging Entrepreneur Award, were created for exceptional faculty
achievement in promoting and maximizing the commercial potential and
human benefits of university intellectual property and/or research.
Both awards were open to faculty in all UC colleges.

The Established Entrepreneur Award was presented to
Jainagesh Sekhar, PhD, professor in the UC College of Engineering. In
the past seven years Dr. Sekhar has licensed technologies to five
companies, established a manufacturing company which was launched from
UC and has become fairly diversified with a worldwide presence, and
developed Business Materials courses.

Frank Zemlan, PhD, professor in the UC Department of
Psychiatry, was be presented with the Emerging Entrepreneur Award for
his development of Cleaved-Tau (C-Tau) Technology. C-Tau can be used to
diagnose subarachnoid hemorrhage in patients with normal Computed
Tomography (CT) scans. This technology can also be used to predict the
clinical outcome of patients with severe traumatic brain injury and
determine if drugs of abuse can cause brain damage.

The two newly established entrepreneur awards are
sponsored by UC's Senior Vice President and Provost for Health Affairs,
Senior Vice President and Provost for Baccalaureate and Graduate
Education, Vice President for Research and Advanced Studies and the
Center for Entrepreneurship Education and Research.

In addition to the new awards, the Center for
Entrepreneurship Education and Research presented Donald C. Harrison,
MD, senior vice president and provost for health affairs emeritus, and
Jason R. Lemon, PhD, with the Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence.
This award, established in 1999, recognizes both successful and future
entrepreneurs with a connection to UC.

For further information, contact Dorothy Air, PhD,
associate senior vice president for entrepreneurial affairs, at (513)
558-6054, or Charles Matthews, PhD, associate professor, UC College of
Business Administration, at (513) 556-7123. Information about new award
nomination criteria can be found at http://www.uc.edu/eawards.